Due to slavery and the regulations that slaves had placed on them as black people it was not morally right or human naturally right for blacks and whites to be together.
When a slave owner would take it upon himself to conceive a child with one of his black slaves they would obviously have a child that was mixed with both races.
Depending on the relationship and status of that slave owner with his community and his plantation he would either keep his child in his home and raise It as his own or he would pretend like it wasn't his child and have it raised as a slave.
Whether or not he did one or the other this child would have to choose one side of his identity.
That child would have to chose being solely involved in the white community or in the black community, there was no in between.
After the civil rights movement all nationalities tried to branch together which I had thought that brought the black community together above all.
For the most part this did happen.
But a large amount of people could not break the stigmatized argument that a light skinned blacks, is or is not, deemed worthy of being called a blacks because their race was mixed therefore dark skin blacks are held on a higher pedestal and vise versa.
In reality we are all apart of the black community.
Some lighter skinned blacks in deed do have both parents that are full black but their pigmentation is just lighter.
Your skin color is apart of your identity.
No one out side of the black community is involved in this battle of dark skin blacks vs light skin blacks, but now that we make is so relevant as a topic of conversation they will take our views as a black community and see that we are against each other and join in.
We have fought so hard as a unit to improve the image that society has on the black community and we are destroying that golden road one rude comment, ignorant joke, and mythical biases at a time.
Photos flood my social media accounts.
People have taken it upon themselves to have a list of things that make some one of dark skin different than someone of light skin.
For example, I am pretty sure you have heard some reasoning such as:
Light Skin:
- Light skin females can't even count the number of free drinks they get a night
- Light skin girls are so beautiful. If only they could hold a conversation without being distracted by something shiny.
- Light skin guys are too sensitive
- Light skin men are more educated.
- Light skin guys are pretty boys
- Light skin girls are stuck up and think they are better than everybody
- Light skin girls cannot cook.
- Light skin men have more money than dark skin man
- Dark Skin men are all thugs, gangsters, thieves, liars, cheaters, violent.
- Dark skin men have larger penis's than light skin men.
- Dark skin women are loud, ignorant
- Dark skin women can cook
- Dark skin women can raise a child
- Dark skin guys are poor and dirty
- Dark skin people are ugly
- Dark Skin men do drugs
- Dark Skin people are always ashy
In reality all black is beautiful.
No matter what shade you are you are beautiful.
Whether you are a man or women, young or old, Black is Beautiful!
We are all still a part of the black community.
Everyone comes from the same roots and has fought the same struggle in society because no one views us differently but our selves.
Know your privilege.
If you have ever used the phrases "light skin people are coming back" or "dark skin people are coming back" HAVE A SEAT!
You catch yourself saying how something is a "light skin tendency" or "dark skin tendency" HAVE A SEAT!
You sound ignorant and the conversation that you are trying to start by saying this, is irrelevant.
The person who notices how many times I mentioned light skin before I mentioned dark skinned and has a problem with it I am talking specifically to you because you fall in this category.
If you are of lighter skin and you see black girl whose hair is looking rough, its not because of her skin tone its because she has some whooped ass hair.
There is nothing wrong with that.
If you are of darker skin and you see a light skin girl whose ugly its not because her skin is darker its because she is just hella ugly.
Yes all skin is beautiful but someone might have ugly features.
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